China tells US stop "Flexing Muscles" after new carrier sails thru Taiwan Straights

[BoyGenius]

China's Defense Minister told his US counterpart that Washington must stop "flexing its muscles" in the South China Sea when the two met Monday, according to a spokesman for Beijing.

At the same time, China announced that its new domestically produced aircraft carrier was headed to the South China Sea for training and research purposes.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe met Monday in Bangkok, where the two were attending a meeting of defense officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other countries.

Wei and Esper discussed a host of issues -- including the political unrest in Hong Kong and the status of the South China Sea, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said.

Much of the international community views China's maritime claims in the region as excessive and a violation of international law. The US also accuses China of militarizing islands in the sea, and regularly sails warships in the region as part of operations to challenge Beijing's claims and ensure "freedom of navigation."

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[Brutus Buckeye]

They would make good Big Ten refs

[ScarletHayes]

The US is it when it comes to stopping naked aggression.  This is it.  And people actually wonder why other nations (mainly China) want our border wide open, US to embrace socialism, to keep going into massive debt, why we're painted as "imperialist," etc...  

So hey, all you useful lumbermetro idiots, maybe think twice next time you consider the US an evil nation while burning our flag, etc...  Just a thought

[3rdgensooner]

China just showed their current weakness. We flexed real muscle and they showed their flab running a mediocre Russian carrier through the straits. That thing would be barely adequate for WWII. They wasted their money.